Angel Studios released a second new trailer for their powerful film, "I Was A Stranger"

Reel Perspectives

December 13, 2025

Angel Studios released a captivating new trailer for their powerful film, I Was A Stranger," set to hit theaters on January 9, 2026. 

The film stars Omar Sy (Lupin), Yasmine Al Massri, and Yahya Mahayni, and is written and directed by Brandt Andersen (Refugee, Everest, Lone Survivor, 2 Guns, Silence).

When a Syrian doctor is forced to flee Aleppo with her young daughter, one desperate choice sets off a chain of events that ripples across borders and pulls four strangers into the same storm. A smuggler trying to save his son. A soldier wrestling with his conscience. A poet searching for home. A Greek coast guard captain caught between duty and mercy. Their paths collide on one night in the Mediterranean, where survival is uncertain and humanity is revealed in its rawest form. I Was a Stranger is a tense, deeply human story about the lengths people will go to protect the ones they love.

Don't miss this tense and deeply human story about the extraordinary lengths people will go to protect the ones they love.

"I Was A Stranger" hit theaters on January 9, 2026.